When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth full-cast audio drama

Sage Tyrtle and the QN Podcast team created a full-cast radio drama based on my apocalyptic, award-winning, Creative Commons licensed short story When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth. I had no idea they were working on it until they told me they'd completed it -- it blew me out of the water. What a fantastic piece of work -- and what a great surprise!

When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth

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Mr Brown | July 20, 2009 3:18 AM | Reply

cory, loved the robot comics version of the story. fwiw, i have serious phantom-pager syndrome -- i feel the little bastard vibrating in my pocket all the time, always patting my thigh (keep it clean!) to see if its real. what i most liked was the fallback solutions devised when the primary channels of communication failed. i always keep a land-line with a corded phone in my house.

there, nothing bitter about that, was there?

MT_Head | September 16, 2009 1:08 PM | Reply

I downloaded the MP3 a while back, and I'm just listening to it now, through headphones. I'm sorry to say it's actually a rather unpleasant experience: the mix is badly balanced. I keep having to turn up the volume to hear the dialogue, and then quickly turn it down again to spare my hearing when the music or sound effects swell. The production values and acting are excellent (as is, of course, the writing!), but the mix keeps making me cringe.

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"I downloaded the MP3 a while back, and I'm just listening to it now, through headphones. I'm sorry to say it's actually a rather unpleasant experience: the mix is badly balanced. I keep having to turn up the volume to hear the dialogue, and then quickly turn it down again to spare my hearing when the music or sound effects swell. The production values and acting are excellent (as is, of course, the writing!), but the mix keeps making me cringe...."

MT_Head

When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth full-cast audio drama

"cory, loved the robot comics version of the story. fwiw, i have serious phantom-pager syndrome -- i feel the little bastard vibrating in my pocket all the time, always patting my thigh (keep it clean!) to see if its real. what i most liked was the fallback solutions devised when the primary channels of communication failed. i always keep a land-line with a corded phone in my house. there, nothing bitter about that, was there?..."

Mr Brown

When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth full-cast audio drama